Melissa Midwest Involved in Lawsuit With Another Model

LINCOLN, Neb. - Internet model Adrienne Meints filed a lawsuit in the
U.S. District Court in Lincoln,
Neb., asking a federal judge to
order Melissa Midwest to give up a domain name.

In the lawsuit, Meints, who
formerly worked with Midwest, claims Midwest's
company Meltech Inc. purchased the domain HotAdri.com in February from Octogy
Media Partners without her consent. Meints claims Octogy did not have the right
to sell the name to Meltech.

Midwest contends she bought the name from someone else.

"We bought it from Steve
Adri's ex-photo guy," she said. "He offered it to her at the end of January,
but she never returned his message, so he waited a month, contacted us and
asked us if we wanted to buy it."

Midwest said the seller showed that the site was registered
in his name only.

The site now redirects to
TeensLikeItBig.com.

In addition to an injunction
that would return the domain name HotAdri.com to Meints, she is seeking damages
between $10,000 and $100,000 from Meltech and Shane Harrington, whom the suit identifies
as the sole owner or a co-owner of the company.

Harrington said he could not
understand why the lawsuit was filed against his company. He maintained that
Steve Hoisington of Hoisington Productions was the rightful owner of the domain
name.

In another case filed in Nebraska, Meltech is suing
Meints on a number of claims, including breach of contract. Filed in the Lancaster
County District Court, that suit claims Meltech and Meints in 2006 entered into
a contract in which the company agreed to manage and promote websites featuring
images of Meints.

Meltech claims Meints
violated the agreement by directing the websites' users to view another site she
created.

The company also claims that
Meints failed to share proceeds from parties, promotions, magazine shoots and
other activities.

Meints replied to that
lawsuit, stating Meltech owes her payment for revenue she generated for the
company's website.